This week, the California Legislature held a number of policy committee hearings on bills in their second house. In what is shaping up to be a very busy month ahead, the Assembly and Senate continued setting bills for hearings in their policy committees ahead of the July 10 deadline for fiscal bills and July 12…
Read More »This week, Assembly and Senate policy committees once again began holding hearings on measures advanced out of their house of origin in compliance with the May 31 deadline. The Legislature has just over one month before facing additional deadlines for policy committees to hear and report fiscal bills to fiscal committees (July 10) and non-fiscal…
Read More »Today marks the deadline for the California Legislature to pass bills out of their house of origin. Both the Senate and Assembly this week were in floor sessions only, maintaining a steady pace of floor debate and votes each day. Measures passed out of their house of origin will now be considered through the committee…
Read More »The California Legislature maintained a steady pace of floor sessions this week, working to advance measures out of their house of origin ahead of next Friday’s deadline to do so. Both the Senate and Assembly face another busy week of floor session again next week, and no other committees other than the conference committees or…
Read More »Yesterday, both the Senate and Assembly Appropriations Committees held Suspense File hearings ahead of today’s deadline for fiscal committees to hear and report bills in their house of origin. In hearings each lasting just over one hour, Appropriations Committees advanced or shelved over 1,000 bills. As a result of the hearings, over 700 bills remain…
Read More »This week, the California Legislature maintained a steady pace of committee and floor activities as it approaches a series of upcoming deadlines. Today marks the last day for policy committees to meet prior to June 3, and next Friday marks the last day for fiscal committees to hear and report to the floor bills introduced…
Read More »On Tuesday, the Joint Legislative Audit Committee (JLAC) and the Assembly Health Committee convened an informational hearing related to California State Auditor Elaine Howle’s recent report, “Department of Health Care Services: Millions of Children in Medi-Cal Are Not Receiving Preventive Health Services.” Recall, the audit report, released in March, determined that an average 2.4 million…
Read More »This week, the California Legislature continued a steady pace of committee hearings as it begins to shift its focus toward floor sessions and budget deliberations which will occur throughout the month of May. Today marks the deadline for bills without a fiscal impact to be heard in policy committees and advanced to the floor of…
Read More »On Monday, the California Legislature returned from its Spring Recess to a busy week of committee hearings and bill negotiations. Today is the deadline for policy committees to hear and report all bills with a fiscal impact introduced in their house of origin. Next Friday is the deadline for policy committees to hear and report…
Read More »The California Legislature wrapped up an extremely busy week of committee hearings, bill negotiations, and amendments, breaking for its 10-day Spring Recess upon adjournment of yesterday’s session. Policy committee hearings stretched several hours – some into the evening hours – as committees considered and acted upon a significant number of measures. Advocates packed the halls…
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